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... person . He exhibits a not uncommon union of scepticism and credulity . The combi- nation is not by any means unnatural ; for it often requires good and long training to cure a man of subtle doubts , and the first advances of knowledge ...
... person . He exhibits a not uncommon union of scepticism and credulity . The combi- nation is not by any means unnatural ; for it often requires good and long training to cure a man of subtle doubts , and the first advances of knowledge ...
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... persons we would remind of the fable of the old lion , and leave them to make its application . Were we disposed to rest on mere authority , we might be well content with the names of Cuvier , Owen , and Agassiz ; but were they , and ...
... persons we would remind of the fable of the old lion , and leave them to make its application . Were we disposed to rest on mere authority , we might be well content with the names of Cuvier , Owen , and Agassiz ; but were they , and ...
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... person of lively fancy ( like this author ) might say that they resembled ' the fins of a fish ; but they are not made up of rays , nor have they the anatomical structure of fins ; and the development of the brain is , at this period ...
... person of lively fancy ( like this author ) might say that they resembled ' the fins of a fish ; but they are not made up of rays , nor have they the anatomical structure of fins ; and the development of the brain is , at this period ...
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... persons , are composed on an immense diversity of subjects , and , as to the mass of them , are more thoroughly un- premeditated , as well as more completely suggested ex visceribus cause , as Cicero would say , than those of almost any ...
... persons , are composed on an immense diversity of subjects , and , as to the mass of them , are more thoroughly un- premeditated , as well as more completely suggested ex visceribus cause , as Cicero would say , than those of almost any ...
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... person in this coun- try who has not felt a deep interest in the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly . These two distinguished officers , while employed on friendly missions in central Asia , were seized , imprisoned , and ...
... person in this coun- try who has not felt a deep interest in the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly . These two distinguished officers , while employed on friendly missions in central Asia , were seized , imprisoned , and ...
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Side 106 - Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Side 504 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Side 79 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Side 258 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country...
Side 202 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Side 425 - I was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
Side 37 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made them and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 277 - And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire ; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Side 437 - The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Side 449 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.